Saturday, April 30, 2016

GLAD TO GET BACK FOR A SOFT COMFY JEEP SEAT SIT-DOWN

A nice bright sunny Saturday morning so Pheebs & I headed over to the Hullett Marsh again & took us for a long walk. Long enough for me to really appreciate finally getting back to the Jeep for a much appreciated sit down in the soft driver’s seat. Maybe not a long walk for hiker types but for me & my short legs it was long enough.

ANOTHER NICE MORNING FOR A QUIET WALK IN THE MARSH

NO THAT’S NOT A SKUNK DOWN THERE AT THE LEFT IT’S JUST THE PHEEBS

ALWAYS NICE TO HAVE WATER AROUND

NO PHEEBS THAT’S NOT A GOOSE IT’S AN OLD LOG

THINK I SAW A MUSKRAT OVER HERE DAD

Had hoped to see some different critters for a change but alas the Dinosaur Age ended many millennia ago. Not a lot of songbirds back yet from what I could tell but lots of Canada Geese of course. Spring & Fall are nice times for walking when there are no stinging & biting insects in the air to be continually swatting at. Snagged ourselves a few more farm houses along the way as well.

Last summer I had taken some photos of a ‘container house’ being built here in Bayfield & a few readers expressed an interest in seeing the final results when it was finished. Well it’s finished now & as it turns out the house is being offered as a ‘Dream Lottery’ home. Here is a video of the interior & I bet you will be very surprised at what you see. The Container House.

TOOK THESE 3 PHOTOS IN THE FIRST WEEK OF MAY 2015

Well that wild & wooly Ivan has got himself off to another great start way over there in the wilds of Alberta Canada. Airplanes, helicopters & fire towers just to name a few things & this year he started it all off with a stint at an Air Tanker Base where he got to wind up the fire siren & alert all air crew and loaders when a launch of their water bombers is required. While he calculates the distance and bearing to the fire he also provides the pilots with fire coordinates as well. And he’s got lots of great pictures to show you what he & Hailey are up to at that Air Tanker Base too. Getting Bombed In Alberta.

WE’VE SEEN A NUMBER OF THESE MAN MADE BIRD BOXES-NESTS BUT NOT SURE WHAT KINDS OF BIRDS THEY WERE MADE FOR…..MAYBE WOOD DUCKS??

LONG RANGE TELEPHOTO SHOT OF LIBBY ABOUT HALF A MILE AWAY

IT WAS SURE NICE TO GET BACK FOR A SOFT COMFY JEEP SEAT SIT-DOWN

It was good we were able to get ourselves a sunshine fix for a few hours this morning because it looks like we have a couple days of rain ahead of us. Checking our live-feed weather map I can see lots of rain closing in on us from the south. Gonna be a wet night.

OH-OH LOOKS LIKE SOMEBODY’S GETTING A BLAST HERE

WELL GEORGE SO WHO WAS THAT!!??

‘HUMPH’

OK, BETTER CHECK ON THE KIDS

We’re cooking up some U.S. travel plans for about the middle of June which may or may not involve the Motorhome. Too early for any details yet but as soon as we get things nailed down I’ll let you all know. Before that though Kelly is heading off to see her Mother in Spencerport NY around the end of May for a bit so Pheebs & I will be home alone cooking us up a batch of peanut butter sandwiches, boiling up some toast & frying us up some Kellogg’ Mini-wheat cereal. Yesirreeee we know how to do er up good:)) Say, how many times was it I used the word ‘up’ eh.

I’M OUGHTA HERE!!

GROANER’S CORNER:(( Two pastors, one Catholic and one Protestant, and a Jewish rabbi were part of a threesome one day on the golf course. The group ahead of them were playing slow, terrible golf and weren't gesturing for a play-through. After several holes of this agonizingly slow golf the three clerics began to get very impatient, each muttering his own curses upon the group ahead of them.Soon the Marshall came about, and was hailed down by the holy men who shouted, "We're sick of being held-up by these yahoos ahead of us who won't allow us to play through!" The Marshall stated, "I'm sorry, gentlemen, but those men are both deaf and blind."The Protestant cried, "Oh, Jesus, forgive me for my bad thoughts and cursing upon those poor souls." The Catholic cried, "Oh forgive me, Mary, for my bad thoughts and cursing upon those poor souls." The rabbi shouted, "So why can't they play at night!?"

Thanks for the great plug Al, and great photos as usual. Pretty soon you'll have the heat and humidity, and you'll looks back on these cool days as refreshing. Hope you can get the big wheels rolling again this summer!

AL'S CAMERA EQUIPMENT

A sometimes asked question readers have about my blog is what kind of a camera do I use. Well I have 5 of them and use all 5.

'UPDATE':: July 2017 Thanks to a very generous blog reader I have been able to update my Nikon camera equipment and supplement my camera gear with a couple additional fine Sony cameras as well.I now have a Nikon D7200 sporting a new Nikkor 18-300 3.5 zoom lens. Also have picked up a new Nikkor 1.8 primary 35mm lens. In addition I also now have a Sony RX100-3 camera as well as a Sony Exmore Cybershot. I have given my Canon Powershot point and shoot camera to a neighbor.

- In early 2017 I replaced my Nikon D-90 camera with a new D-3400 after the 'auto focus' feature on my aging D-90 quit working. The Nikon D-90 had been my work horse camera sporting a Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 lens. I used this camera for most of my landscapes and I now have it set up for night photography where 'auto focus' is not necessary.

-My older faithful and favorite Nikon D-40 finally packed it in during the summer of 2015 and I replaced it with a new Nikon D-3100 which now carries my Nikkor 70-300mm 1:4.5-6.6 lens. I use this camera & lens for most of my candid people photos, birds, animals, bugs & flower close-ups.

- Previous to my Nikon D-90, most of my photos were taken with my old faithful Nikon D-50 from 2006 to early 2011 whereupon the D-50 suffered a rather gruesome death when it fell off a table onto a cement porch in southeastern Arizona. The 70-300mm lens on the camera survived the fall but the D-50 did not. My Nikkor lenses are interchangable between the D-90 the D-3100 and the D-3400.

-My Canon Powershot SX210iS is a point & shoot camera which I carry in a case on my belt everywhere I go.-My older Canon Powershot A720iS is the camera that sits close to my recliner for most of those doggy living room photos.